PAKISTAN TIMES

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Obama acknowledges the strikes of drones in Pakistan

Obama

Approved by U.S. President Barack Obama that the U.S. drone aircraft raids on a regular basis on sites believed to be strongholds of gunmen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

Obama said that the raids "surgical strikes and intense against those listed on the terrorism list."
This is the first time that Washington has recognized publicly raids on sites tribe in Pakistan.

At the same time played down reports of Obama, who spoke about the United States use this type of aircraft in Iraq, saying that the drones are used to protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

He said the goal of limited use to "make the Iraqi embassy buildings are protected."

Obama made the remarks in a meeting took an hour on Google Plus Obama answered questions on the participants and the number fell to 130 thousand questions.

And about six people were invited to conduct the intervention with President Obama during the meeting and ask him questions directly.

This comes within the meetings and interventions by the U.S. administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden on social networking sites continued for about a week.

In response to a question about raids drone extensively since taking office, Obama said the occurrence of these raids, noting that it "lies heavily on tribal sites in Pakistan."

He explained that "these raids targeting al-Qaeda members sheltering in the sites of the nature of the geographical and along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan."

Obama stressed that "it is important that everyone understands that this strikes a careful monitoring."

Little is known about the details of the raids secret supervised by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA and military target al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the mountainous areas in Pakistan.

According to a survey conducted by the French news agency, U.S. planes 64 raid in the area in 2011 after the numbering to 101 raid in 2010.

This raises the raids outrage in Pakistan as it strikes indiscriminately kill a large number of innocent civilians.

And increased feelings of anger toward the United States in Pakistan since the establishment of a special forces unit killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a secret operation last year.

Mysterious illness killed 27 people in Lahore, Pakistan

27 Pakistanis died after a mysterious illness after eating their pain medication was distributed free to nearly 25 thousand people in the city of Lahore, while still more than 100 people remained in hospitals and the state of 50 of them dangerous.

According to Pakistani media yesterday that the drug was distributed free of over 25 thousand patients, but 30% brought him back.

The head of the mark Iqbal Medical Institute, Dr. Jawad Akram during a press conference that 27 people have died of a mysterious illness suffered after taking the free medicines while 105 others were injured and at least 50 of them in serious condition.

He called Akram and connect each of the drug to stop eating it immediately.

With the finger and sent to the Institute of Cardiology in Punjab, said that the drug dealer, a preliminary investigation has cleared him.

The Minister of Health Jhanzab Khan channel "minimum News" it will take firm action against those responsible for what happened.

Maya Khan, a Pakistani broadcaster separated from her by the pursuit young couples with a television show

Maya Khan

Pakistani television news anchor was removed from her job after the workshop made a morning in which the ambush of young couples and demanded to know whether they were involved in unethical behavior.
The Maya portrayed the anchorwoman of Pakistan Khan "sky", a wander in the postponement of a park in the city of Lahore, Pakistan, asking young people about their condition and whether they are married or engaged and their parents if they know their relationship.

In a particular scene, the Maya, "31" years and attributed to it by the title of "Aunt Altjh" claim by showing a couple and the marriage certificate.
The program has raised anger and outrage among viewers nicknamed as the "witch hunt" has thousands of viewers expressed their displeasure Within hours of the broadcast program has been providing a lot of protests calling for the separation announcer.

In the desert Maya Khan defended itself, saying that the critics do not even watch the show, but the next day, Maya appeared in a video made after the apology was to bring a lawsuit against the many.

Height of the victims of counterfeit medicines in Pakistan by 117 people

Continue to fall victims of fake drugs amid investigations and dismissal of the Punjab government for a number of officials, where he died three
Patients with heart disease because these drugs are suspected in Lahore, bringing the total number of casualties to 117 dead in four weeks.

The channel (Sky TV) reports that Pakistan's reported that three women died in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Sunday.
Medical sources said that these Pakistani women died because of the low number of platelets and white blood cells after a suspected drug abuse, which dismissed them from the Institute of heart disease.
The Prime Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has been suspended from work on Saturday, three officials of the Ministry of Health, blaming them of responsibility for those fake drugs and caused the deaths.

Killed the leader of a banned group in Pakistan suicide attack

Pakistan suicide attack

Killed four people, one leader of the «Ansar al-Islam» rebel banned Akhundzada Hajj and seven others wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber in the area of Baja near Peshawar Ghulam major cities in northwest Pakistan's tribal.

Police said the bomber arrived on foot to a house under construction is due to the movement's leader, noting that the group «Ansar al-Islam» taken from the Khyber tribal region, located between Peshawar and the Afghan border-based, and always engage in community with «-e-Taiba» rebel.

Pakistan has seen in four and a half years, hundreds of bloody attacks, mostly suicide and attributed to the movement «Taliban» condemning strategic alliance with Islamabad and Washington. The attacks resulted in the fall of more than 4,800 people. But the number of attacks declined in recent months.

In the province of Cram (North West), killed 6 militants, at least others were injured in a security operation against insurgents were deployed in several regions of the Cram, and also saw the destruction of the security forces caches of insurgents using the latest heavy weapons, and regained control of the regions of Jogi and Markhan Kando.

On the other hand, calmed the Supreme Court tensions resulting from the crisis, raising the authorities note a request for assistance the U.S. military in addressing the leadership of the Pakistani army, the worst in the relations between the civilian government and the military since the coup in 1999, it lifted the travel ban imposed since December (December) last Former Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani. And decided a panel of nine judges, that Haqqani has the right to travel outside Pakistan, but to tell the Supreme Court formed a committee to investigate in the note, his plans in advance.

Haqqani and commented on the decision, saying: «I am pleased that the Supreme Court restored my right to travel after it was canceled without charge to the». He added: «I will join my family in the United States after consultations with the leaders of the People's Party».

Haqqani had returned to Pakistan in November (November) amid the outbreak of the crisis resulted from the alleged businessman Mansoor Ijaz that a senior Pakistani diplomatic note to the request for extradition and the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). And the subsequent resignation from office Haqqani.

There was no evidence that the military orchestrated a coup, and called the U.S. Department of Defense memo as «no credibility». But the scandal has threatened in the following weeks to become a full-blown conflict between the military and civilian leadership, a crisis of Pakistan can not afford.

It was due to make a miracle testified before the inquiry this month, but he did not come to Pakistan because of security concerns, said constitutional expert Salman Akram Raja, said that «rejected miracles make a personal testimony and a demand to raise the level of insurance has angered the court, and has reduced his credibility.

Reload this «Google» Privacy Policy chagrin of users

Google

Reload this step has raised privacy policy search engine giant Google, has outraged a number of U.S. and international community, to attach things to collect information about users of its sites, according to the mentioned site «CNN» story.

And resulted in the charges, which states that Google, interfere in the privacy of users and stores it for undisclosed reasons, to send eight members of Republicans and Democrats in U.S. Congress, a letter to the CEO of Google, Larry Page, demanding clarification of the new changes in our Privacy Policy for users. The response of Google, that the purpose of these updates is to increase the effectiveness of the unique experience offered by the company for users of their sites, as well as to identify targets more accurately for publicity materials, published on their backward, which would facilitate the delivery of advertising material to persons targeted with high accuracy.

Showed a number of studies to the arrival of a number of Internet users in the world to five times than it was in 2000, bringing the figure to 2.1 billion users, or about 30 per cent of the proportion of the globe, and concentrated most of these users in China and the United States of America.
The data show that the study that the largest percentage of Internet users around the world are located in the United States that have 245 million Internet users, or about 80 per cent of the population of the United States, while the number in China to 485 million users, or about 36.3 per cent of the total population there.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Prime Minister of Pakistan hints at the possibility of early elections

Prime Minister of Pakistan

Hinted at Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the possibility of an early general election to be held at any time be agreed upon after the presentation of the budget of the Federal.

Gilani said - Speaking to reporters who met Sunday night at the official residence after his return from Davos, where he represented his country at the World Economic Forum: The timing of new elections will be agreed with the opposition parties and allies as and when required. "

Gilani said that the government will talk with the opposition to build a consensus on the bill on the constitutional amendment of 20 ".

Commenting on the statement made by the parliamentary opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, that the opposition will not engage in dialogue with the Government on the proposed bill, Gilani said: The leader of the opposition make statements consistent with the role.

Gilani and warned that no place in the political life of the establishment of buffer walls but to build bridges .. Emphasizing the need to establish a dialogue between the government and the opposition on all issues.

He added: We want to hold free, fair and transparent, because the smooth transition of power will establish a tradition of emulation in the future.

He continued by saying that President Asif Zardari will address a joint session of Parliament in a timely manner "during the first week of February" .. He pointed out that Zardari would then be the first president to address a joint session of Parliament for the fifth time.

The Prime Minister noted that the government drew up last year to the ability to view the next budget in May and can thus allow more time for MPs to discuss issues pertaining to their constituencies.

It is noteworthy that the 20 proposed amendment to the Constitution, which aims to create new regions receive strong opposition from nationalists in the southern province of Sindh, where they see that it will allow the government amended the old frontiers of territories without consultation with the regions concerned.

The Pakistan People's Party supports the establishment of the territory Srajka South Punjab and Hazara region in the north-west.

Pakistan's Supreme stretched out investigation into the scandal Zardari memorandum of America

Pakistani President Asif Zardari

Approved by Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday to extend the time frame set for the Judiciary Committee to investigate the circumstances of the scandal, secret memo, which was attributed to Pakistani President Asif Zardari that he is prepared for the United States requesting from Washington to support his intention to change the leadership of the army and intelligence services to include officers loyal to him and to the west, another two months to allow them to complete the investigation into the controversy over the alleged note.
Today I met a body of 9 members headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to consider the petitions of three different one from the judicial committee in charge of investigating the note and seek to extend the deadline for the completion of its work.
These formed the Judicial Committee on 30 December last year with a mandate to complete the investigation into the controversy on that note one month, the Committee was unable to complete its work due to the non-appearance of the American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, a key figure in raising the scandal, for it to be heard, the Commission submitted a request to the Supreme Court to extend the deadline granted to them.
It also allowed the court today to former Pakistani ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani to travel abroad on a petition filed by lawyer Asma Jahangir entrusted to him paid by the sons of her client that the residents abroad, and that he should be allowed to visit him.
She said that "her client will appear before the court when telling him so," and, accordingly, the court allowed for Hussain Haqqani to travel abroad after he was banned from leaving the country on the orders of a former Supreme Court.
The scandal (Memo Gate) last month, a major cause of tension between the civilian government. And the powerful military establishment in Pakistan after attributed to Pakistani President Asif Zardari that he is prepared, it was said that Ambassador Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz played a mediating role between the U.S. Administration, Zardari .. The scandal led to the dismissal of Ambassador Haqqani, under pressure from the Pakistani military leadership.

Hungary's victory over Pakistan in the Challenge Cup polo

Team won the Hungary of the Polo an important victory for team Pakistan outcome of the five quarters, at the opening Cup Challenge States Polo, hosted by the Dubai Courts Club Dubai Desert Palm Polo in its fourth edition 2012, and continue until the thirteenth of the month of January, a tournament where Post 6 teams of the elite teams polo global and local, and led 6 players from the world's leading in this game, led by professional Argentines Adalfo Kambarso, Paulo MacDonald and Juan Martin Nirj, each carrying 10 of them Handicap and will enter the difference in the strongest competition to win the title of the premier event in this game, and organized annually by businessman Ali Bowardi, and is keen to bring the most prominent in the sport globally, in addition to the participation of many players from the state and people of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and competitions are held at two games a day. will see the third round two encounters hot wars.

Post difference

And participate in this tournament teams UAE, led by Ali Bowardi, and Britain, led by Shan Wenger, Hungary led Aandash tempore, Pakistan, led by Juan Martin, Brunei led Prince Sea Jikra Bolcam, the team states, led by Alfred Barros, saw the game the first round on Bowardi and businessman Saeed bin Dre commander Group of States, and many of those interested in the tournament from many nationalities. The game marked the opening of the championship excitement and rivalry reflects the keenness of the participating teams to win, the aspirations of reaching the finals and fly the title of the fourth edition of the tournament, has grabbed the team Hungarian first win of the tournament, which came at the expense of the Pakistani team score 5 / 4, and showed the winning team in preparation for the win from the beginning to organize its ranks competition and pressure on Pakistan, which condemned him to control most of the stages of the first half despite the loss of many opportunities, taking advantage of opportunities to score one of the mats Mahando first goal for his team and without a response from the Pakistani team. The Pakistani team has regained its balance in the second half which was played for the tie and the result of 2 / 2, having scored two goals Nero Juan Pakistan, and in return came a goal by Martin Hungary Valient Mashido and Matisse. The group continued their revival of Pakistan in the third game, to score two goals by Juan Nero to achieve the trick, scoring the only goal of Hungary, Matisse, and did not see the fourth game of the match and the final objectives of any of the two teams.

See golf resort of the Desert Palm Polo embraced the tournament today, a new round of the challenge between stars are held for the first time between the players involved, namely the review of their skills in terms of ball control and correction with precision and focus, and the transition from defense to attack in an atmosphere of an exciting review of their experiences to the public.

And evaluate the organizing committee headed by Ali Albwardy at seven o'clock dinner in honor of all the teams and the participating delegations and senior guests. Had been held yesterday in the second round two matches, collected the first Pakistani team with his team of the world when the third and a half, and the second game brought together the UAE team with Britain in the first appearance for them.

Great successes

Said the businessman Ali Bowardi orderly and Mandhan the tournament, his commitment to the establishment of this tournament, and pay for that great successes and the many benefits of the tournament, which represent an opportunity for many of the players of the people of the UAE and some of the participating States, and friction with the constellation of players the most prominent in their respective countries, who are keen to participation, especially as we strive to always better to call to participate in this event, which started since 2009 to reach the fourth version now. In his closing remarks, thanked the institutions and corporate sponsors for the tournament, especially the company of Land Rover vehicles and «Royale Slot» and «Healthcare» World and «Palm Desert», Bank «any AP G» The Dubai Polo Club.

Nawaz Sharif, he is willing to resign in support of efforts to overthrow the government of Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif

Head of the Muslim League and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the former that his party is ready to respond to the demands of some political parties in Pakistan's other opposition party members to submit their resignation from the Federal Parliament, provided that this will help in overthrowing the government of President Asif Ali Zardari.

This came in a press statement made by Nawaz Sharif in the city of "Bear Cote" in the Sindh province of South-East Pakistan, according to the ABS, "a. T. Y" News Pakistan's own, as explained Nawaz Sharif that the current government stands in the way of application of the system Democrats face right in Pakistan, saying the current government is the main cause of the crises taking place in Pakistan at the present time, and must apply all of the Federal Supreme Court decisions, because it is abstaining from the obstacle in the implementation of true democratic system in Pakistan.

This came in commenting on the decision of the Federal Supreme Court on call Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the 19th of January, to a court of law to explain the reasons for its application to a court decision issued in 2009 on the abolition of the National Reconciliation Act, which enabled a number of politicians to return to Pakistan, including including President Asif Ali Zardari and his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, without exposure to the issues that were waiting in the judiciary of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif said his party is working to implement real democratic system in Pakistan. In the context of this case revealed the Pakistani media local as in step a quiet decided to lead the Pakistan People's Party (NDP), which met at the presidential palace, headed by President Asif Ali Zardari approved on the appearance of the Prime Minister before the Court, noted that in case of refusal to appear would not stay in front of the court no choice but to national convicted of treason, of its failure to implement the decisions of the court as the chief executive.

Amid this development informed President Asif Ali Zardari, the leaders of parties in the ruling coalition that the development of relations between the government and the military is gradually improving, he said in his speech to his allies in the government that his party did not support the creation of tension between the national institutions. For their part, political analysts commented in the Pakistani press on the developments, saying that he had noted that the government of President Asif Ali Zardari of dealing wisely with internal pressure, and that its decision on the Prime Minister to appear before the courts - contrary to customary among Pakistani politicians - indicates that the government responsive to judicial decisions. They expected to submit Pakistani Prime Minister apologized in court during the hearing.